Search Results for: Portuguese

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lost patience with Portugal over its restrictions on the import of European Union (EU)-made polyethylene water pipes, asking the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to impose heavy recurring fines. If Lisbon does not scrap the restrictions quickly, judges could soon impose daily penalties of many thousands of Euro, payable until Portugal complies with an earlier ECJ ruling against its pipe import policy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has lost patience with Portugal over its restrictions on the import of European Union (EU)-made polyethylene water pipes, asking the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to impose heavy recurring fines. If Lisbon does not scrap the restrictions quickly, judges could soon impose daily penalties of many thousands of Euro, payable until Portugal complies with an earlier ECJ ruling against its pipe import policy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has signed another fishing access deal with a weak African state – this time with west Africa’s Guinea Bissau, which has recently been criticised for being a staging point for Europe-bound illegal narcotics from south America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has signed another fishing access deal with a weak African state – this time with west Africa’s Guinea Bissau, which has recently been criticised for being a staging point for Europe-bound illegal narcotics from south America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) working group on bribery has strengthened its criticism of Britain’s dropping a bribery investigation concerning BAE Systems and the Al Yamamah defence contract with Saudi Arabia. At a March meeting, the committee “reaffirmed its serious concerns” about the matter and alleged “continued shortcomings in UK anti-bribery legislation”, for instance over the liability of legal persons to foreign bribery charges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening to ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to impose daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000s on Portugal for failing to comply with a 2005 ECJ ruling that it bring its drinking water quality in line with European Union (EU) standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend around Euro 4 million helping Cypriot, Greek and Portuguese wine producers export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets. As usual in these cases, Brussels is funding 50% of planned marketing programmes, matching financing from national governments or private sources.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London

EUROPEAN manufacturers have been given the go-ahead to use explosive chemicals as igniters for airbags after a new European Union (EU) law had threatened to put them out of business. The new legislation drawn up by the European Commission in Brussels last year (2005) was principally aimed at the fireworks industry and laid down new regulations to ensure safety in handling, storage and transportation binding across the 25 member countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened legal action against Denmark, France, Portugal and Sweden for failing to install continuous safety controls required by a European Union (EU) directive on ‘the control of high-activity sealed radioactive sources and orphan sources’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared France gas and petroleum company Total’s takeover of Spain-based gas, oil and petrochemical production firm Compañía Española de Petróleos (Cepsa), which focuses on the Spanish and Portuguese markets. Brussels fast-tracked the merger approval, as it considers the deal does not pose competition problems for the European Union’s energy sector.…